LP print service stalls

[Roger Kennedy]

HP's tech. support pointed me back to the OS as the source of the problem.
I searched Sun's site for info. and found a patch for the lp system.  It
seems that if lpsched received a filename greater than 24 characters the
service would die.
The patch ID is 10359-10.

----- Original Message -----
From: cbrink <cbrink at allsportssupply.com>
To: <rkennedy at chaptech.com>; 'Multiple recipients of list SAMBA'
<samba at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: LP print service stalls


> This is a limitation of the JetDirect card. A JetDirect card can only
handle
> one  session at a time (1 printjob, 1 lpstat). Sounds like your printer
> subsystem is not handling the timeout correctly. I would look into that.
You
> can call HP's Tech Support they are very helpful on these problems.
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> When our server receives simultaneous print jobs from 2 or more clients,
the
> print service stalls and I have to manually restart it (lpsched).
> I am running Samba 2.0.4b under Solaris 2.5.1 on a SPARC 20 and I'm using
> system V printing.  The printers are connected to the ethernet using HP
> Jetdirect cards and administered by jetadmin on the Sun box.
> Any ideas on how I could troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Here is the relevant smb.conf info:
>
> [global]
>  workgroup = GROUP
>  netbios name = SERVER
>  encrypt passwords = Yes
>  log file = /var/opt/samba/log.smb
>  socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>  os level = 65
>  create mask = 0770
>  directory mask = 0770
>  hosts allow = XXX
>
> [laser1]
>  comment = Laserjet 4
>  path = /tmp
>  read only = No
>  print ok = Yes
>  printer name = laser1
>
>